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White Pines Hit by Needle Disease Year After Year

WebWidespread defoliation was first documented in the spring of 2010 in Maine, where it affected pines across some 60,000 acres, the scientists note. Since then, white pine needle damage “has continued to spread and is now well established in all New England states,” they said. Almost all conifers have some needlecast diseases.

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Spruce budworm: Coming again soon

WebBy Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer It was a hot July day in the 1970s. Dave Struble was back home in Island Falls, on a day off from his job as a regional entomologist for the Maine Forest Service. But it was too hot to do much, and he suggested to his

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What is a healthy forest

WebA healthy Maine forest will have a suite of birds using every niche from forest floor to the topmost branches. There will be deer and moose; coyotes and bobcats; mink, porcupines, raccoons, weasels and other mammals. One good indicator of a healthy forest, said Smith is an understory with a good population of shrubs like hobblebush and beaked

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Exemplary Forestry: A New Paradigm for the Northeast’s …

WebTo demonstrate the feasibility of this new financing “partnership” the Maine Mountain Collaborative is now pursuing the creation of an Exemplary Forestry Fund to finance a pilot project of at least 100,000 acres —“landscape scale” in other words. They are focusing on the area known as “the Mountains of the Dawn” — the swath of

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Students and Others Prepare for the Next Spruce Budworm …

WebThe spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana, is a native insect pest that periodically ravages the spruce-fir forests of the U.S. and Canada. It’s actually not the brownish-gray adult moth that does the damage, but its larvae, which eat young needles and buds. Damaged trees turn a rusty red, then die. Sometimes by the millions.

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Whatever Happened to Acid Rain

WebThe acid rain that fell on the White Mountains and Maine and the Adirondack Park in New York State mostly originated in the car-clogged big cities to the south and the stacks of the big coal-fired power plants of the Midwest. The pollution rode the prevailing winds to more remote parts of the Northeast. The effects were felt far downwind.

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The Importance of Maine’s Family Forest Owners

WebThe Maine Tree Farm Stewardship Hub model works towards a similar goal of fostering regional community between family woodland owners. Stewardship Hubs are an extension of the Maine Tree Farm Program, a statewide stewardship recognition program known for its green and white sign of good forestry.Hubs act as regional network nodes for Maine Tree …

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Maine TREE Foundation

WebServing Maine’s Forest Communities since 1989. Maine TREE educates and advocates for the sustainable use of the forest and the ecological, economic, and social health of Maine’s forest community. Subscribe to seedlings Newsletter!

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Where the wood flows . . . and why

WebThe two trucks are part of the “flow” of Maine wood. But even calling it a “flow” implies a sort of riverine uni-directionality at odds with reality. A better word might be “churning.”. Like its big sister, capitalism, the flow of wood in Maine is seemingly chaotic, self-organizing, yet constantly changing.

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Logan Johnson Hired as Maine TREE's Next Executive Director

WebThe Maine TREE Foundation (Maine TREE) is pleased to announce that Logan Johnson has been hired to join the staff as the new Executive Director, effective June 13, 2022. Johnson has been actively involved with Maine TREE since 2018 as the Tree Farm Committee coordinator, Programs & Outreach Associate, Holt Research Forest …

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Connecting Students & Teachers to Maine's Forests

WebThe four-day retreats held in July provide ample opportunities for Maine educators to explore different methods of connecting their students with the ecosystems and local natural resource and forest professionals that surround them. With the help of our industry partners who support our Forests of Maine Teachers’ Tours, our education efforts

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Urban Forests — More Important Now Than Ever

WebThe four-year project was supported by a grant from the U.S. Forest Service, as recommended by the National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council. Bath has 8,500 residents and more than 25,000 trees, according to a draft report on the four-year project. Those 25,000 trees are worth an estimated $10 million.

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Trees and Winter..

WebThe big challenge a northern winter poses for northern trees is they “can’t conduct photosynthesis in the winter,” said Jay Wason III, a plant physiologist and assistant professor of forest ecosystem physiology at the University of Maine’s School of Forest Resources. Lack of sunlight is a problem, but also, trees are mostly composed of

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Jonathan LaBonte is Maine TREE’s new Executive Director

WebThe Maine TREE Foundation (Maine TREE) is pleased to announce that Jonathan LaBonte of Auburn has been hired to join the staff as the new Executive Director effective July 1 st.LaBonte joins Maine TREE after extensive community and natural resource-based work with State Government, the Androscoggin Land Trust, and others, …

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Emerald ash borer: a voracious pest nears Maine

WebBy Joe Ranki, Forests for Maine’s Future writer November 2013 When the emerald ash borer arrives in Maine everyone will lose, but the state’s Native American tribes have more to lose than most. The ash is a valuable hardwood: straight, tall, with a beautiful open grain; producer of prime firewood. The three ash species that

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Maine TREE Foundation to Honor 2023 Forest Award Recipients

WebThe award will be presented to the School of Forest Resources during the Forest Awards Night on October 19, 2023, and during a presentation at a later date at the Blaine House. Additionally, Maine TREE is honored to present the inaugural Sherry Huber Forest Champion Award to Sarah Medina. Her impressive record as a Champion of Maine’s …

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The Maine Forest Products Council

WebHe joined the Council in 2001 as director of the Sustainable Forest Initiative and two years later became the executive director of the 350-member organization. He and his wife Nancy live on a farm in Exeter. They have three children. Strauch said helping Maine legislators, regulators and the public understand the Council’s views is his mission.

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